[Agent Smith]

Thanks for information.

I was wracking my brain trying to figure out why 25,000 US citizens would have any possible reason to be in Lebanon.

[Unassuaged]

I was wondering the same thing. I have 1 coworker and 1 doctor vacationing this month in Leb. They are both stuck now. Both are Catholic and naturalized US citizens there visiting family. I get the feeling that their situation is not the most common.

[OldFriend]

Summertime and the living is easy. You're on welfare in the US, have a job in the underground economy, and love to visit the old homeland when schools' out.